Visegrad Youth.Comparative review of the

situation of young people in the V4 countries

Ewa KrzaklewskaJagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

Pool of the European Youth Researchers, COE&EU Youth Partnership

Plan of review

Young people situation in the V4 countries – background information

 Comparative analysis of the four focus themes

1.  Employment & Entrepreneurship

2.  Voluntary activities and their international dimension

3. Participation

4. Non-formal learning

Population data

=> Population aging, low fertility, late motherhood

Involvement in education

Risk of poverty

 Employment & Entrepreneurship

Counselling

Good practice

Voluntary activities and their international dimension

Potential for growth

New attitude:

- Information accessible

- New media

- Institutional engagment

- Business

- Local activism

Volunteering

Lack of recognition/

prestige

Not in a career model

Low awarness

Low NGO recources

Lack of understandin

g why it is needed

Good practice

Participation

Hear my voice!

Youth participation

- Youth organisations (10-15%)- Community planning- Private expressions/artistic actions- Online participation

Good practice

Non-formal learning

Non-formal learning is purposive but voluntary learning that takes place in a diverse range of environments and situations, for which teaching/training and learning is not necessarily their sole or main activity (Chrisholm 2005)

ERASMUS PROGRAMME PARTICIPATION

Good practice

Recommendations 1

Employment- Quality employment- Internships- Individualised counselling - PES- Promoting entrepreneurial activity- Promoting women participation in the

labour market

Recommendations 2

Promoting volunteering- As a part of curricula- As a tool for social inclusion- Of an intercultural/international character- Strengthening NGO’s capacity

Recommendations 3

Strenghtening youth participation- Strenghtening local participation- Finding you ways to involve young people

e.g. online- Appreciate alternative participation by

listening actively to its results- Empowering young people as leaders

Recommendations 4

Non-formal learning - Recognition of diverse forms of non-formal

learning- Investments into youth workers

competences- Widen access to intercultural encounters

PLUS: V4 collaboration should be encouraged!

Thank you!

Ewa Krzaklewska

ewa.krzaklewska@uj.edu.pl